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Sarah and troopergate

This morning's news already tipped us off to what is coming next in the saga of how Sarah Palin is "savagely victimized" every time someone tries to find the truth about her background and her record as a public servant. Well before she was plucked from relative obscurity of the Alaska Governorship to become the VP nominee for McCain, she was accused of, according to the WSJ Sept 5:

"In August, a bipartisan committee of the Alaska legislature launched an investigation into whether the governor fired her public safety commissioner on July 11 for not firing an Alaska state trooper.

She and her family had been feuding with the man -- Gov. Palin's former brother-in-law -- following a domestic dispute."

So the charge is inappropriate use of her elected position for personal revenge against a former husband of her sister. Now here is my prediction: since the bipartisan legislative investigation is chaired by a Democrat, it will soon be suggested it is just "another attempt by Ds to destroy her reputation". It will be discussed as if it was something started AFTER she was anointed to the VP slot, though clearly it started much earlier. In this morning's news, her former staff has now refused to cooperate with the committee, though Palin has promised full cooperation with the investigation in order to clear her name. Stay tuned.

posted by econtalk @ 5:11 AM